This is a record of my journey as a Muslim. I used to be Catholic and belonged to a missionary organisation. After my conversion, I sat on the board of a Muslim converts' organisation and specialised in da'wah programmes, convert management, interfaith issues and apostasy cases. I am an initiate of a Sufi order. As such, the articles and writings tend to cover these areas.
All the Arabic and graphics could not have been done without the help of my wife, Zafirah.

Saturday, 18 March 2017

Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab Declared Takfir on All Muslims in His Time

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab wrote an essay
called Kashf ash-Shubuhat ‘an Khaliq al-‘Ardhi wa as-Samawat, “The
Clarification of Unclarity Concerning the Creator of Heaven and Earth”, for ibn
Sa’ud. In this work, he declared that
all present-day Muslims are disbelievers and have been so for the last six
hundred years. He applied the verses in
the Qur’an meant to refer to disbelievers among the tribe of the Quraysh to
most God-fearing and pious individuals of the Muslim community. ibn Sa’ud naturally took this work as a
pretext and device for extending his political sovereignty by subjecting the
Arabs to his dominance. ibn ‘Abd
al-Wahhab began to call people to his religion and instilled in their hearts
the idea that everyone under the sun was an idolater. What is more, he said anyone who slew an “idolater”,
when he died, would go immediately to Paradise.